Re: one time pads

One time pads don't provide perfect security, George. They only provide perfect security if the opponent doesn't know the contents of the pad. Given that most small organizations are in locations that are easily burglarized, ``when lives are at stake'' it would be easy for governments to break in, copy the storage medium containing the pad, and then read all past and future traffic encrypted with that pad. All cryptography is economics. If you make it harder to tap your phone lines, but it's cheap to break in, they'll do that. There is no absolute security this side of the grave (and who knows about the other side). John